Carolinas Association for Passenger Trains

April 2011 Meeting Details

The meeting will be at the historic Matthews Seaboard Station, located
at
210 Matthews Station Street downtown beginning at 1:00 p.m. The
meeting should be completed by 4:00 p.m.

The Beantown Tavern is next door at 130 Matthews Station Street.
We will meet there at 11:30 a.m. for lunch. The restaurant's website
with menu is at:
http://www.beantowntavern.com/. For those who
would like other options, a Thai Taste and a Subway are also in
the same area.

For those arriving by rail, area CAPT members will help transport
people to the meeting location, and return to the Amtrak station
in Charlotte after the meeting is concluded. Charlotte Area Transit
System bus service is also available. If interested check out the
details at
http://www.ridetransit.org.

CAPT Board Meeting Agenda

Welcome

Secretary's report

Treasurer's report

Update on attempt by Republican legislators in the NC General
Assembly to kill the federal grant for high speed from the Obama administration.

Update on resolution drive in South Carolina in support of
expanded rail passenger service, and additional inserts for the
resolution drive brochure

Update on recent push by a Central Midlands coalition for a Columbia-Charlotte connection to the high speed rail network

Status of efforts to produce new CAPT brochure featuring
maps of present and possible future rail passenger service